Ahhh I think I see it now. In an old photo I took.

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Warning... Thread detour: So you took an early steering column completely apart?

I've got one in that exact same state sitting on the bench right now... Did you take the bearings out, or did you stop where you took that pic?

I stopped there and flushed them on the top end and bottom end with a solvent and straw tip. I repacked them with fresh grease.

I researched after and read that some have removed and replaced them.

Thanks guys. Judging by that pic the wires run under the steering column not over it.

Here are a couple of photos of my unmolested steering column. Hope they help.

Excellent pics Dan!

Those should almost go into some sort of sticky for future reference. In fact, I'm going to annotate a set of them with information from this thread as well as a few others.

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just what I needed Dan. Thanks